Out of My Mind
Get to know more about a young girl that has cerebral palsy
Summary
In this book there was this young girl named Melody and she had cerebral palsy. She can't walk, talk , or keep her balance. She is very smart, but nobody knows because she can't show anybody. One day at school Melody and her friend, Catherine, find this thing called the Medi-talker, which would allow her to talk through the machine. Melody and her parents talk about it and they came to the decision to get it for her. Since she can communicate through the machine she could participate in class more. She then joined a quiz team and she got the highest score out of the group. Her and her team won the first competition and was going to go to Washington D.C., but their flight got canceled so Melody couldn't make it in time so she had to stay home. She later found out that her team got to the airport earlier and went on the morning flight. Her team ended up losing in D.C. and later on that week her sister got hit by a car, but survived. Once Melody's teammates came back home, they explained why they didn't tell her that their flight got canceled and apologized.